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3970X also has much higher clock rates though! Might be a net win for some workloads.
by gameswithgo 7y ago
3970X also has much higher clock rates though! Might be a net win for some workloads.
- tareqak 7y agoYes, but if you care about 64 threads without the possible side-channel issues that SMT currently/theoretically has, then you are back to the 3990X. For what it is worth, I have an AMD Ryzen 2700X Eight-Core Processor that I got in 2018, and I keep SMT off. I do some light gaming with it, and I am happy. I did not notice a big drop in performance, but I did not truly measure the difference.